The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth
The 8th Social Study of ICT workshop (SSIT8) at LSE
25 April 2008
Panel on information, memory and culture
Giovan Francesco Lanzara (chair) is Professor in the Department of Political Organisations and Systems at the University of Bologna and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Information Systems and Innovation Group, LSE. His research interests include the analysis of complex systems, ICT and innovation, learning processes in organizations and institutions and reflective practice. Among his recent publications are “The Institutionalization of Knowledge in an Automotive Factory: Templates, Inscriptions, and the Problem of Durability" (with G. Patriotta), Organization Studies, 28(5), May 2007, "Technology and the Courtroom: An Inquiry into Knowledge Making in Organizations" (with G. Patriotta), Journal of Management Studies, 38(7), 2001.
Elena Esposito teaches Sociology of Communication at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. She published several works on the theory of social systems, media theory and sociology of financial markets. Among them: Soziales Vergessen. Formen und Medien des Gedächtnisses der Gesellschaft (Social Memory, Forms and Media of the Memory of Society), Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2002; Die Verbindlichkeit des Vorübergehenden. Paradoxien der Mode (The Bindingness of the Transient, Paradoxes of Fashion), Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2004; Die Fiktion der wahrscheinlichen Realität (The Fiction of likely Reality), Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2007.
Mireille Hildebrandt, LL.M. at Leyden University and PhD at Erasmus University, is an Associate Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory at the Rotterdam School of Law. She is also Dean of Education of the Research School on Safety and Security in the Netherlands. Since 2002 she has been seconded as a part time senior researcher to the Center for Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Free University of Brussels, where she presently works on a 5-year research project on Law and Autonomic Computing: Mutual Transformations. She is involved as work package leader on Profiling in the European Network of Excellence on the Future of Identity in Information Societies (FIDIS). Her main research areas are (philosophy of the) criminal law and the nexus of philosophy of law and technology, with a present focus on the types of knowledge that are generated by automated profiling and proactive smart applications. Together with Serge Gutwirth she is editor of Profiling the European Citizen. Cross-disciplinary perspectives, forthcoming in 2008 (Springer).
Felix Stalder is a senior lecturer in media economy at the Zurich University of the Arts. His research focuses on the transformation of informational production through new collaborative practices and on issues of the network society. He is also an activist in the field of digital culture, co-editing conferences such as Wizards of OS (Berlin 2003, 2005), Open Cultures (Vienna 2003), World Information City (Bangalore 2005) and Economies of the Commons (Amsterdam 2008). Among his most recent publication include Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society (Polity Press, 2006) and Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks (Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005). http://felix.openflows.com
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